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Donald Trump Has No Values

Adapted with permission from the author from Facebook posting 3/27/17.

THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I’m not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn’t care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There’s nothing he would die for — not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He’s not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, “the common man,” veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn’t care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he’s not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn’t—in a more secular key—even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel’s hand. Doesn’t even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn’t live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he’s very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?

Virginia Heffernan writes regularly for The New York Times. Her most recent book, Magic and Loss (Simon & Schuster), reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet. In 2005, Heffernan (with cowriter Mike Albo) published the cult comic novel The Underminer (Bloomsbury). In 2002, she received her PhD in English Literature from Harvard.

Trump is utterly empty, but his gross vacuum is sucking in a number of poor souls. I’m not talking about the deliberate supporters whose morals are slipshod or missing like his., but people whose lives are so hopeless that they foolishly patronize the rigged Trump lottery.

And where precisely is she incorrect? Which assertion would you dispute?

(And by the way, how do you know that she doesn’t shave her armpits? What difference would it make as far as the veracity of her statements about Mr. Trump is concerned? AND FINALLY, what freaking business is it of yours anyway?)

I am once again reminded that 53% of white women voted for him, and they probably all dutifully shave their armpits, lol. But they must suffer from Stockholm syndrome, These women are responsible for the Trump phenomenon.

“And if these different aspects of the entire ‘spectrum’ of… impulses’ were described according to the notions of your favorites and expressed in their language, they might be defined as follows:
1. Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious;
2. The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray;
3. The irresistible urge to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures;
4. The inclination to free oneself from the necessity of making the being-efforts required by Nature;
5. The tendency to make use of every kind of artifice to conceal from others what they consider as their physical defects;
6. The serene enjoyment in the use of what is not personally deserved;
7. The striving not to be what one is.

YES! Absolutely — even if he uses (someone else’s) blood-and-soil rhetoric, the soil to him can only be a golf course, a Barnum simulation of a landscape and groundcover than is non-native to wherever it has been installed, i.e. Florida. It’s a desecration of the land, not a devotion to it — whether wholesome or unwholesome.

Trump does seem to sincerely adhere to the belief that he is the product of superior genetic stock. This may be a source of his obvious disdain for sons Eric and Don Jr, who do not fit anyone’s idea of mental or physical Übermenchen, and are therefore walking, talking contrary evidence to his claims of extraordinary genes.